Subject: Re: bug#13594: Planning Emacs-24.4

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 22:26:18 -0500

> Do you think `display-buffer-no-window' should return 'fail instead of t
> when the user overrides the default action?

I don't think it really matters (and IIUC the current code doesn't care
abut the distinction).

> Then it could be defined as:
> (defun display-buffer-no-window (buffer alist)
>   (when (cdr (assq 'allow-no-window alist))
>     'fail))
> And the user customization:
> (add-to-list 'display-buffer-alist '("\\*compilation\\*"
>  display-buffer-no-window (nil)))

Sounds fine.

        Stefan